Combined placket and shirt-waist holder



PATENTED P121346, 1904.

C. J. BENDER. COMBINED PLACKET AND SHIRT WAI$T HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6, 1903.-

H0 MODEL.

Inventor Claim-Ji UNITED STATES I Patented February 16 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. BENDER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED PLACKET AND SHIRT-WAIST HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 752,371, dated February 16, 1904.

Application filed July 6, 1903.

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. BENDER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Phila-.

delphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have inventeda certain new and useful llmprovement in a Combined Placket and Shirt-Waist Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in a combined belt, placket-closure, and shirt-waist holder, and has for its object to provide a device of this description in which an attachment secured to a belt will hold the placket of a dress closed and at the same time help support the skirt and hold the shirt-waist in place, and a further object of my invention is to so construct the device that the same may be easily attached or detached and is simple in construction, cheap in manufacture, and yet durable and eflicient in ac' tion.

With these ends in view this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the inside of the belt and attachment and a portion of the skirt, showing the placket. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through a portion of the belt and attachment and also the skirt. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the attachment with the belt removed therefrom; Fig. 4:, a perspective view of the removable bar secured to the shirt-waist, which the attachment is adapted to be hooked upon.

A represents the belt, which is different from an ordinary belt in that it is made of two parts A and A The belt where it comes around in front of the wearer may be attached in the ordinary manner with a buckle; but at the rear the belt is divided into the two parts mentioned, and the two parts are adapted to be secured together by the attachment B. This attachment consists of a plate C, which Serial 1J0. 164,366. (No model.)

may be ornamented upon its rear face in any manner desired, and upon the inside surface of the plate C is attached the frame D, which is held at a distance from the inside surface of the plate by the legs D. To the vertical side D of the frame is attached permanently, by sewing, riveting, or otherwise, the part A of the belt. To the rearward end of the part A of the belt is secured an eye E, and this part A of the belt is adapted to be slipped through the opening of the frame in behind the opposite side D of the frame.

ing the placket, and upon each side of the placket-opening I secure the stiffening-strips Gr, whichare preferably made of metal, and these stiffening-strips keep the placket from bulging open, and then extend upward to the top of the Waist-line of the skirt, and then extend along the waist-line a short distance, as represented at G, in opposite directions, and then are folded back upon themselves, and the ends extend through'the skirt and are formed in the shape of hooksGr said hooks being bent in opposite directions. One of the hooks G is adapted to be hooked through a slot D, formed through the side D of the frame D, and the other hook G is designed to be hooked through the eye E, secured to the portion A of the belt. Thus it will be seen that the tighter the belt is pulled, so as to pull the portion A through the frame, the closer the two parts of the skirt upon each side of the placket will be pulled together, and thus the placket will always be kept closed.

H is a hook bent inward and downward from the upper end of the frame D. This hook is designed to be hooked upon the shirt-waist at the rear, so as to keep the same from riding upward. Any form of device can be secured to the shirt-waist to receive this hook H; but

which consists of two upwardly-extending hooks I, sewed or otherwise secured to the inside of the rear of the shirt-waist, and J is a bar provided with eyes in each end adapted to hook over the hooks, and the central portion of this bar extends through slits formed in the shirt-waist, and the hook H is designed to be hooked upon the bar between these slits I F represents a portion of the skirt maintain- I i I prefer the attachment as shown in Fig. i,

upon the outside of the waist. This bar can be easily removed from the shirt-waist when the same'is washed.

- Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction here shown, as slight modifications could be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is 1. In a device of the character described, a belt divided at the rear in two portions, an attachmentlooated at the rear of the wearer, one portion of the belt secured permanently to the attachment, the other portion of the belt sliding through the attachment, an eye secured to the rearward end of the slidable portion of the belt, hooks secured to the skirt upon each side of the placket-opening, one of the hooks adapted to be hooked in the attachment, and the other hook hooked in the eye of the slidable portion of the belt, a downward and inwardly projecting hook formed with the attachment adapted to hook in an eye carried gydthe shirt-waist, as and for the purpose speci- 2. In a device of the character described, a belt divided at the rear into two portions, an attachment to which the rear end of one portion of the belt is secured permanently, the other portion of the belt sliding through the attachment, an eye secured to the rearward end of the slidable portion of the belt, hooks secured to the skirt upon each side of the placket-opening, one of the hooks adapted to be hooked to the attachment and the other hook adapted to pass through the eye of the slidable portion of the belt, stiffening-pieces secured to the skirt upon each side of the placket-opening, a hook extending inwardly and downwardly from the attachment adapted to hook'in an eye carried by the shirt-waist, a plate carried by the attachment and adapted to hide and protect said attachment, as and for the purpose specified.

.3. In a combined belt, placket-closure and shirt-waist holder, a belt divided at the rear into two portions, an attachment consisting of a plate, a frame arranged upon the inner surface of the plate and at a slight distance therefrom, the rear end of one portion of the belt being secured permanently to one side of the frame, the other portion of the belt adapted to slide through the opening of the frame and behind the other side, an eye secured permanently to the rear end of the slidable portion of the belt, hooks secured to the skirt upon each side of the placket-opening and bent in opposite directions to one another,

'one of the hooks adapted to be hooked into the attachment, the other hook hooked through the eye of the slidable portion of the belt, stiffening-strips secured to the inside of the skirt upon each side of the placket-opening, a hook extending inward anddownward from the frame, hooks extending upward and secured-to the inside of the rear of the shirtwaist, a removable bar provided with eyes in each end adapted to hook over said hooks, the central portion of said bar extending to the outside of the shirt-waist through slits, the hook formed with the attachment adapted to hook over this outside portion of the bar, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. CHARLES J. BENDER.

Witnesses:

G. E. MORRELL, W. H. RICE. 

